The US Justice Department announced indictments against nine men for working for a notorious cybercriminal network with alleged ties to Russian intelligence . The Treasury Department also slapped sanctions on the men cutting off their access to the dollar . The nine men eight Russians and a Ukrainian according to the charging documents remain at large but US officials are hoping a multimilliondollar rewards program run by the State Department can lead to tips on the mens whereabouts if and when they leave Russia . The Conti gang garnered international headlines in February when it pledged its full support for the Russian government as it attacked Ukraine . A Ukrainian cybersecurity researcher retaliated by leaking thousands of internal documents on the group including evidence that appears that appears to suggest Conti operatives have contacts within the government . A senior FBI official declined to comment on the current whereabouts of the men or how the FBI tracks them. The FBI has declined to commented on how theFBI tracks them or what the FBI tracked them or how it tracks them . The FBI official says Conti ransomware has been used on hundreds of organizations worldwide including almost in the U.S. According to an FBI agent told at the time that an FBI officer told him to tell him to stop leaking the information. It has not been used in recent ransomware attacks. It hasn’t been used to be used in the Conti code has been a major threat to the FBI. It doesn”t mean the hackers have been quiet. It’s declined to speculate on the Contiator. It didn’ve declined to Comment on how it’ll not be used. It isn’to comment on whether the hackers’. It is not a threat to anyone else’re not necessarily the FBI’m not a major
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